Tepe Ghabristan (Qabrestan)
Late Neolithic to Bronze Age (c.5000–2500 BCE; Plateau Chalcolithic type)·Tehran-Qazvin plateau Chalcolithic·🇮🇷 Qazvin Province, North-Central Iran, Iran
About
About Tepe Ghabristan (Qabrestan)
Twin mound 330 × 250 m, 18 m high at Savajbolagh: type site of Qazvin Plain Chalcolithic where Fazeli & Coningham revealed Sialk I–II painted transition, first crude brick, kiln, and Zagros sealings plus Susiana JAR horizon verifying north-south contact. Tepe Ghabristan (Qabrestan) — Oldest Pisé Architecture on the Central Plateau context and stratigraphy linking to regional chronology.
Why it mattersTepe Ghabristan (Qabrestan) — Oldest Pisé Architecture on the Central Plateau
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Stratigraphic relation to neighboring cultures?
Theories
- 01Regional trade node
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- Occupied Late Neolithic to Bronze Age (c.5000–2500 BCE; Plateau Chalcolithic type)
- Period
- Late Neolithic to Bronze Age (c.5000–2500 BCE; Plateau Chalcolithic type)
- Culture
- Tehran-Qazvin plateau Chalcolithic
- Builders
- Local communities
- Purpose
- Cheshmeh-Ali ware transition and pisé building sequence
- Abandoned
- post-period
- Rediscovered
- 19th-century surveys, modern excavations
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
Late Neolithic to Bronze Age
Cheshmeh-Ali ware transition and pisé building sequence
On the ground
Structures & features
35.8500° N · 50.0000° E · 450 m · 2 mapped features
Cheshmeh-Ali Painted Horizon (Phase II)
villageLevel with Cheshmeh-Ali black-on-red painted bowls
35.8510° N · 50.0010° EPisé Kiln Quarter
workshopChalcolithic pisé buildings with updraft kiln clusters
35.8490° N · 49.9990° E